Ask DN: How do you deploy and host websites today?

over 7 years ago from Jason Gowans, Co-Founder of Aerobatic

Alex Chan, over 7 years ago
You can add a hook to your server side deployment to run whatever command you want (e.g. gulp build:dist) when something is pushed.
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- Matt Anderson, over 7 years ago
  That sounds exactly what I'm after, thanks!
  p.s. You know any good resources for getting this set up correctly? e.g. error handling etc.
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  - Russell Heimlich, over 7 years ago
    What you're after is git hooks, specifically the post-recieve hook. look in your .git directory and there is a folder called hooks. Inside there are files that are basically shell scripts.
    I would write a shell script to trigger your gulp command, test it, make sure it works, and then hook it up to your post-receive git hook like so...
    !/bin/bash
    path/to/your/shell-script.sh
    Now whenever your repo on your server recieves changes, that shell script will run and do whatever needs to be done.
    Here is a more thorough guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-git-hooks-to-automate-development-and-deployment-tasks
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